HORUSDY 4-Piece Large Magnetic Parts Tray Set, Stainless Steel Heavy Duty 9.5" W x 5.5''L Square and 4.5" Round Magnetic Trays Tools Parts Tray

Why it's worth it

This four-piece stainless set gives you big square trays for sorted hardware and round bowls for loose clips and pins. Owners consistently describe the magnets as strong enough to hold parts sideways or upside down, which is the whole point of buying one.

The magnets are the reason to buy this set. Owner feedback here is unusually consistent on the one thing that goes wrong with cheap trays. Buyers describe dropping a bolt in from a few inches away and having it snap into place, and they report the trays holding their contents when tipped or hung. Several mention mounting one on a wall near a workbench. A few even find the pull annoyingly strong when prying a bolt back out.

You get two shapes, and that's more useful than it sounds. The 9.5-by-5.5-inch square trays let you lay caliper bolts and slide pins out left to right in the order you removed them, so reassembly is a matter of working backward. The 4.5-inch round bowls have the walls that keep retaining clips and small screws from rolling over an edge. Most jobs want both at once.

From our review of 7 magnetic parts trays, by Ben Carter, Tech Editor

What we like

• +The magnets are the reason to buy this set
• +You get two shapes, and that's more useful than it sounds
• +Stainless steel makes sense in a garage that gets damp
• +There's a longevity signal here that's rare in a category this cheap

What to know

• –The stainless interior is hard on threads
• –It's heavier than plastic-framed trays, which matters if you reposition a tray a dozen times during a job